Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 5 esyng, 9 dial. yeazin, 6– easing. [contracted form of EAVESING.] = EAVESING 2. Also in comb., as easing-drops, -sparrow.

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a. 1400–50.  Alexander, 1522. Euen als þe esynges ȝode ouer be þe costez.

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1483.  Cath. Angl., 117. An Esynge, domicilium, tectum.

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1580.  North, Plutarch (1676), 597. He … lay without doors, under the easing of the House.

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1611.  Manchester Court Leet Rec. (1885), II. 267. Anoyed by the water wch cometh from the easinge of the howse.

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1781.  J. Hutton, Tour Caves, Gloss. (E. D. S.), Easings, eaves.

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1857.  J. Scholes, Jaunt, 31, in Lanc. Gloss. (E. D. S.). See yo, Tim, hoo sed to me, iv ther is nah o felley peeorcht on th’ yeazin’s wi’ o choilt in his arms.

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1881.  Leicestersh. Gloss. (E. D. S.), Easings, eaves, more particularly the eaves of a stack or rick.

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